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The Romans interacted with many cultures. They interacted with and later conquered all of the cultures bordering the Mediterranean Sea, including Greece (which had the greatest influence on Roman civilization), Egypt, the Jews, the Carthaginians (seafaring people from North Africa), and the Gauls (the tribe from what is now France). They fought and traded with the Persians, and through this trade they acquired goods from as far away as India and China, although it was very rare that a Roman would go directly to the Far East. Toward the end of the Roman Empire, the Romans fought and made peace with various so-called "Barbarian" tribes, including the Franks, Goths, and Vandals (who conquered Rome), and also with the Huns.